6-14 Chapter 6: Driver installation
6.2.2 Red Hat® Enterprise ver. 3.0
Follow these instructions when installing the Broadcom® Gigabit LAN control-
ler base driver for the Red Hat® Enterprise ver. 3.0 operating system.

Building the driver from the TAR le

4. Click Next when the InstallShield Wizard window appears. Follow screen
instructions to continue installation.
To build the driver from the TAR le:
1. Create a directory and extract the TAR les:
tarxvzfbcm5700-<version>.tar.gz
2. Build the driver bcm5700.o as a loadable module for the running kernel:
cdbcm5700-<version>/src
 make
3. Test the driver by loading it:
insmodbcm5700.o
4. Install the driver and man page:
makeinstall
5. Refer to Red Hat distribution documentation to congure the network
protocol and address.
Install rst the Kernel Development tools before building the driver from
the TAR le.